Backporting Tango runtime enhancements to druntime

2011-04-14 Thread SiegeLord
I am porting Tango to D2 and while I try my best to use druntime instead of Tango's runtime, occasionally I find that Tango's runtime has additional features that other parts of Tango make use of. The most important of these differences right now is the Thread module. For example, Tango's versi

Re: Backporting Tango runtime enhancements to druntime

2011-04-14 Thread Walter Bright
On 4/14/2011 4:15 PM, SiegeLord wrote: Also, if this discussion is best done on the druntime mailing list... can someone tell me where that mailing list is? http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/d-runtime

Re: Backporting Tango runtime enhancements to druntime

2011-04-15 Thread mta`chrono
We could also rewrite tango.core.Thread so that it extends core.thread. But keep the old interface/API. Some of the tango special feature might be wrapped in this case. In my mind it's more important that tango.core.Atomic gets deprecated, because it doesn't work well on my maschine. I have ou